You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me.
God has caught us in an ambush, we cannot turn back to escape Him, for He stands behind us recording our sins or blotting them out in grace; we cannot go forward to outmarch Him, for He knows all our deeds beforehand and provides for all our wants. His hand is laid upon us; we are gripped, wholly in His power, with no escape. But those who are His children by faith know this besetting presence as the embrace of their heavenly Father.
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David refuses the hiding places where men cloak themselves in lies. He fixes on a truth that strips all pretense bare: nothing escapes God's sight, not because He watches from afar, but because He shaped us bone by bone in darkness and cannot be ignorant of what He has made.
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Commenting on Psalm 139:1-24
God's knowledge of me surpasses my knowledge of myself, He sees my thoughts, my words, my deeds, all others' as well, past and future. That He knows all this I believe without question; but how He possesses such knowledge, in what manner He exercises it, is beyond my comprehension and strikes me with wonder I cannot fathom.
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